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I don’t know how the members of City Council and the employees of the city of Santa Clarita do such a great job. I can’t figure how they endure all of the terrible words that are thrown at them.
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Clearly, no matter how many times you are told both publicly and privately what the objections are, you still don’t get it. So let me take a stab: A) Trading blight for blight is the wrong solution. If you are arguing that people want to get rid of the billboards, then people want to get rid of all billboards, not just some of them. B) A big chunk of the billboards that people want removed have already been bought out by the CC, when they paid Edwards $1.3 million for their business…that happens, regardless of this deal. C) A backroom deal happens when when the two parties meet away from the public eye and agree on terms before taking them public…and then fight for those terms, regardless of what the public wants…that is the very definition of what happened here…our CC and METRO/AllVision decided on a deal, then after making it as bulletproof as possible, brought it out to be voted on, with limited discussion. Then we learn the particulars: no negotiations with any other companies, only a quarter of the net…not half, lobbyists throwing fundraisers for two CC candidates, a 50 year contract.
Darryl, you can support this and the City Council all you want…and you can use this pulpit of yours to do it…but they are wrong…and they are going to spend $200K of the city’s money and ALL of their lobbyist money just to stay right in their minds. This is a power play, not a good deal.
BTW, you should give up whatever you are doing and immediately become a publicist…you are doing a bang up job for the 3 Blind Mice inCity Hall.
Best,
Another example of the “old guard” refusing to see the change in our community.
We are not willing to sit back and watch our Council turn our city into another LA or worse, Bell.
It’s time for the people of the SCV to stand up to the Council and say we aren’t going to take it anymore.
The people have spoken. They do not want the billboard (safety hazard) and they do not want to see some members of the Council dig their heels in to assure their personal interests garnish funding from outside companies.
Don’t believe it.. Our Councilwomen had campaign fundraisers paid for by the billboard company, one owns property right next to the land where the billboards were to be removed and near the new albatross of a library.
Shame on them, and shame on Darryl for not seeing through it.
You seem to believe that the number of billboards that will or won’t be removed is all that matters. It is not. Electronic billboards are obtrusive, in my opinion in horribly poor taste, and based on where they would be placed, a traffic hazard. I would far rather have the old ones stay right where they are than have to deal with the electronic ones. Apparently, a lot of us feel that way, since you are making such a point of devoting at least part of each one of your columns to this issue. Please have a bit of respect for those of us that disagree with you.
Webmaster’s Note: The reader should be aware that Metro (the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority) has a multi-year development agreement with Allvision LLC regarding billboards. Metro is a separate public agency and is not part of the city of Santa Clarita. Metro’s decision (it was not the city’s decision) to use Allvision falls under Metro’s contract with Allvision. (Given the contract, Metro wouldn’t be able to deal with another billboard company; and the City of Santa Clarita doesn’t have standing to negotiate with anyone in the matter. It’s Metro property.) Like any other ordinance passed by any other city or county or other public agency in California, the Metro-Santa Clarita “billboard agreement” went through the full public hearing process not once but multiple times, with both the city and Metro, as did the hearings associated with the underlying multi-year development agreement by and between Metro and Allvision. Moreover, the city of Santa Clarita is not buying Edwards Outdoor Advertising; rather, over a period of three years, the city is paying Edwards to remove billboards throughout the city, most of which are unrelated to the Metro-Santa Clarita “billboard agreement” except to the extent that the “billboard agreement” provides funding that can be used to pay Edwards the agreed-to removal costs.